Platform Technical Lead at Verisure

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth. At Verisure, we do something amazing every day. By protecting what matters most, we change lives for the better. We are the leading provider of professionally monitored security services with 24/7 response in Europe and Latin America. More than 6 million families and small businesses in 18 countries rely on our innovative technology to protect what matters most to them. We integrate product development, design, sales, installation services and a 24/7 professional monitoring solution. We have a track record of continuous growth, as well as exciting plans to continue expanding, transforming, and leading the market into the future. Our success depends on our people, and we invest in them every day. Working with Verisure is being part of an industry-leading, world-class company that has a strong entrepreneurial spirit. Responsibilities
* You will develop, maintain, and advocate for the technical roadmap of the platform/system, working closely with the Product Owner to balance product features with non-functional requirements such as long-term maintainability, scalability, security, and performance.
* You will act as technical mentor and facilitator for the team(s) developing and operating the platform, and you will be a key point of contact between the platform, the Architecture function, and other IT areas.
* Develop, maintain, and advocate for the technical roadmap of the platform, aligning it with the IT strategy and the architecture vision.
* Advise the Product Owner and the Business Units in the product ideation phases, from a technical point of view.
* Provide technical solutions aligned with the architecture vision, taking the lead in opening discussions with Architecture about new technologies or systems to be adopted.
* Promote and monitor software quality, both at source code and functional level, defining good practices and ensuring the team applies agreed software quality standards.
* Encourage and monitor automation at all levels (testing and implementation), and implement agile practices such as Pair Programming or Code Review.
* Ensure technical debt is incorporated and prioritized in the Product Backlog, and make the impact of not addressing it visible to stakeholders.
* Evaluate and track non-functional requirements (security, backup, performance, proactive and reactive monitoring) across the team(s).
* Raise, manage, and follow up the technical dependencies of the product.
* Help and guide incidence resolution, finding and resolving root causes and recurrent issues.
* Be accountable for the health of the product, reducing technical debt and involving the whole team/organization in its reduction.
* Ensure the professional growth of the team at a technical level, teaching by example.
* Lead the technical lead forum, ensuring alignment and sharing good practices and solutions among the team leads. Main stakeholders
* Product Owner
- to understand business needs and translate them into a technical roadmap and requirements for the team.
* Business Owners
- to understand their needs and their ecosystem and plan a transformation roadmap to our ecosystem.
* Architecture function
- to validate solutions and strategic architecture decisions, ensuring they are properly deployed.
* Other Technical Leads
- to build common ground on best practices adoption.
* Software Quality & Automation (SQA) team
- to define and monitor quality standards and automation.
* Development and Operations teams
- providing mentoring and day-to-day technical leadership. Competencies
* Strategic mindset and leadership skills to lead a team and drive the technical roadmap of a platform.
* Deep technical knowledge of the platform's domain, with the ability to make short and long-term decisions impacting individual applications and components.
* Strongly experience defining and governing modern distributed architectures based on Domain-Driven Design (DDD), ideally Java/Spring Boot microservices, data persistence (SQL and NoSQL as MongoDB), and event-driven integration patterns leveraging domain events through Kafka and RabbitMQ.
* Ability to establish and drive architectural standards that ensure platform scalability, resilience, maintainability, and long-term evolution.
* Solid experience in Software Development, ideally with hands-on background as a developer, able to understand and challenge technical designs, architectures, and code quality.
* Experience in Agile methodologies (SCRUM, KANBAN, SAFe, LeSS, etc.) working with distributed/remote teams.
* Knowledge of non-functional requirements management: security, scalability, performance, monitoring, and backup.
* Experience working in environments streamlined/optimized through the use of AI, including piloting or initiating SDLC management with AI Agents.
* Proven experience driving the adoption of AI-powered agents, including GitHub Copilot and Claude, across the Software Development Lifecycle to impr